Oracle Accessibility Conformance Report

The product was tested for:

• Meaningful icon/image/object identification.
• Meaningful images have alternative text.
• Grids have a table summary.
• PIA pages have meaningful page titles.
• PDF reports that are generated using the appropriate SQR commands to support Table, List, Paragraph, Heading, etc conform to this requirement.
• If an SQR is developed with the appropriate commands to embed tags to identify content such as Table, List, Paragraph, heading, Alternate text etc, a tagged PDF output can be  generated in a manner in which a screen reader can be utilized to read the content.

The product does not utilize the following:

• Time-based media.
• CAPTCHA.
• Tests that contain non-textual content.

The product was tested for:

• User interface component labels are associated with the fields they are labeling
• Column and row headers on data tables.
• Data tables specify SUMMARY
• Tables (Grids and Group Boxes) used for presentation are marked up correctly for layout purposes
• No information is solely conveyed through the style sheet.
• Headings are encoded with HTML heading tags
• List markup is used for marking up lists
• Groups of components are marked up with their description

The product was tested to ensure that the sequence in which content is presented is in a logical tab order.

This product does not use color or shapes as the only means of providing information or guidance to the user.

The product was tested for:

• Text is displayed in both device orientations without loss of functionality or visibility of the text.

The product was tested for :

• Text fields which collect information about the user contain the appropriate autocomplete content attribute.

This product was tested for:

• This product does not use color as the only means of providing information.
• Information conveyed by color has a contrast ratio of at least 3:1

The product was tested for:

• Visual presentation of text to ensure that  a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1.  
• Large-scale text and images of large-scale text have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1.
• Images of text are not utilized in the product.

An Application release is tied to a specific PeopleTool's stylesheet. The stylesheets "Tangerine" , Tangerine Fluid" and "Classic Plus" have been tested to conform to the Large text and contrast requirements.

Some areas of the older stylesheets do not meet high contrast mode or color contrast mode. The settings in these stylesheets can be changed and overridden by user, browser system or operating system.

The product was tested for :

• Text can be resized up to 200% without loss of content or functionality.

The product was tested for:

• Images of text are not used in place of actual text.

With browser zoom set to 400%, User interface does not respond or adjust such that content can be presented without requiring two dimensional scrolling and without loss of functionality or meaning. Bug 30966209.

The product was tested for:

• Graphic content and user components have a 3:1 contrast ratio with their background and/or adjacent content.

The product was tested for:

When the following attributes and no others are modified there is no loss in functionality or content:

• Line height (line spacing) to at least 1.5 times the font size;
• Spacing following paragraphs to at least 2 times the font size;
• Letter spacing (tracking) to at least 0.12 times the font size;
• Word spacing to at least 0.16 times the font size.

There is one noted exception as follows :

Bug 32550507 - Text Spacing will not work for elements that have fixed dimensions or maximum dimensions set.

The product was tested for :

• Dismissable -The content can be dismissed without moving the pointer or keyboard focus
• Hoverable - When pointer hover triggers additional content, the pointer can be moved over the additional content without the additional content disappearing
• Persistent - The additional content remains visible until the hover or focus trigger is removed, the user dismisses it, or its information is no longer valid.

The product was tested for:

• Logical tab order through the product controls and selectable elements.
• Ability to perform functions from the keyboard only, and without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes
• The ability to use the product with OS keyboard aids: StickyKeys and FilterKeys.
• Hotkeys/keyboard shortcuts available to skip elements.
• Proper and consistent use of keyboard keys to perform selection and action.

The product was tested for :

• Movement of focus through each control can be done using only the keyboard, with no "keyboard trap" that prevents focus from moving away from any control.

The product was tested for :

• There are no single character keyboard shortcuts.

The product was tested for:

• Inactivity timeout length is configurable by the Administrator.
• Time limits in the product can be turned off before they are encountered.
• Time limits in the product can be adjusted to at last 10 times longer than encountered.
• Time limits in the product can be extended with at least 20 seconds warning up to 10 times.
• Time limits are longer than 20 hours.
• Time limits used are part of a real-time event, or a essential activity.
• Time limit configured for dismissing process scheduler pop-up notifications is correctly handled.

This product was tested for :

• There is no moving, blinking or scrolling content.

The product was tested for:

• No portion of the screen flickers or flashes with a frequency between 2 Hz and 55 Hz.

The product was tested for:

• Skip repetitive navigation links.
• Removal of duplicate links on pages to allow for easier navigation.
• Headers for page titles, group boxes, and scroll areas.
• Skip Nav functionality.
• WAI-ARIA Landmark to identify regions of a page.

The product was tested for:

• Has meaningful page titles specified in the TITLE element.

The default tab order is controlled by the order of the fields in the HTML. However applications can alter this order when they deem necessary.

The product was tested for:

• Logical tab order through the product controls and selectable elements.

The product was tested for:

• The purpose of delivered links can be understood, its labels are meaningful and that labels are not vaguely worded.

The product provides multiple ways to navigate to a page including:

• Drop down menu.
• Navigation Menu or Navigation Bar( NavBar)
• Related Actions.
• Links on a page.
• Tiles(buttons) on a homepage.
• Button bars (radio buttons).
• Global Search feature to find a page.
• Favorites.

The product was tested for:

• Structure and hierarchy is conveyed using meaningful text in header elements on PIA and Fluid pages.
• Labels describe the purpose of the associated field.

The product was tested for:

• Visual indication of the location of the focus.

The product was tested for :

• There are no multipoint or path-based gesture actions.

The product was tested for :

• There are no single pointer operations

The product was tested for :

• User interface components that include text or images of text and have a label, have a name that contains the text that is presented visually.

The product was tested for :

• There are no functions that require motion of the device.

The product was tested for:

• Properly set lang attribute for each Web page.

The product does not support multiple languages on the same page.

The product was tested for:

• When an element receives focus, it does not result in a substantial change to the page, an additional change of keyboard focus, or the spawning of a pop-up window.

The product was tested for:

• Changes in the value of user interface components does not result in a substantial change to the page, an additional change of keyboard focus, or the spawning of a pop-up window.
• If the application does program substantial changes to the page, PeopleTools provides the ability to issue warnings first.

The product was tested for:

• Pages that are grouped together into sets with a common navigation mechanism utilize that navigation mechanism in the same fashion, with navigation elements appearing in the same relative order each time.

This product has been tested to ensure a consistent UI.

PeopleTools has some inconsistencies between its classic UI compared to the new Fluid UI available from 8.54 onwards. The entire user experience is different with Fluid pages. A user can navigate between classic PIA and Fluid which can results in an inconsistent UI.

However the Fluid Header and Navigation Bar(NavBar) are available in both classic and Fluid to to help with a consistent UI.

The product was tested for:

• When input errors are detected, they are described to the user in text, including identifying the item where the error occurred.

This product was tested for meaningful Labels.

The product was tested for:

• PeopleTools error messages allow the ability to provide instruction with the error on how a user can resolve the issue.

The product was tested for:

• Submissions can be reversed by the user.
• Data is checked for input errors with an opportunity for the user to correct them.
• Data can be reviewed, corrected, and confirmed by the user before they are finalized.

This product was tested for:

• Elements in HTML have complete start and end tags, are properly nested, do not contain duplicate attributes, and have unique IDs.
• Pages validate to the HTML specification.

There is one noted exceptions as follows:

1. Bug 24322172 Duplicate ID Violations when Tiles generated with Tile Wizard.

The product  was tested for:

• HTML controls have a programmatically associated name, derived from the appropriate HTML elements and attributes including LABEL, TITLE, SUMMARY, CAPTION, etc.
• Additional state information is programmatically exposed for HTML controls, such as whether a field is ‘required’.
• Custom controls have appropriate roles specified using the role attribute.
• Custom controls have appropriate state and property information conveyed using the relevant WAI-ARIA or HTML5 attributes.
• Frames have a meaningful title specified in the title attribute.

The product was tested for :

• Status messages are conveyed to assistive technology when there is a change in context.

There is one noted exception as follows:

Bug 32651775 - Status messages are not automatically announced for grids.

See the responses in the WCAG 2.0 section of this report.

The product was tested for:

• File conversion preserves accessibility information.    

                  RTF  template format creates HTML accessible file format.

                  RTF template format creates PDF accessible file format.

PeopleTools uses Oracle Analytics Publisher for PDF Export functionality. VPAT for Oracle Analytics Publisher 105.9.0 has been linked in the Dependent Products section in this report.

PeopleTools uses Oracle Analytics Publisher as an authoring tool. BI Publisher does not prompt for Level A and Level AA conformance. This lack of support has been called out in Oracle Analytics Publisher 105.9.0 VPAT and is tracked in Bug 26626319 - As an authoring tool BI Publisher does not prompt user to create WCAG2.0 conforming accessible content.

Peopletools delivers templates generated using BI Publisher. BI Publisher does not prompt for Level  A and Level AA conformance. This lack of support has been called out in Oracle Analytics Publisher 105.9.0 VPAT and is tracked in Bug 26626290 - Templates with accessibility content for different business requirements to be supported

The product documentation includes:

• Documentation on how to use accessibility features
• Documentation on accessibility features that provide compatibility with assistive technology

Product documentation is available in electronic format.